“Despite the fact that Nicosia has been the capital of Cyprus for more than a thousand years, it was not the birthplace of Cypriot printing and journalism, as one might have expected. The birthplace of the Cypriot press was Larnaca where the first printing press operated and where the first Cypriot newspapers were published immediately after the British arrival in Cyprus in the summer of 1878 […]

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This paper aspires to present briefly the main Greek newspapers that circulated in Nicosia from the early years of British rule, up to Britain’s annexation of Cyprus in 1914.

The paper will not cover the printing and circulation of periodicals in the period being examined […].” (Introduction, p. 7-8)